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&#;TIRSO DE MOLINA, the pseudonym of Gabriel Tellez (–), Spanish dramatist. Born at Madrid in October , he studied at the Alcalá de Henares, joined the Order of Mercy on the 4th of November , and made his religious profession in the Monastery of San Antolin at Guadalajara on the 21st of January He was a dramatist of ten years standing when he was sent by his superiors on a mission to the West Indies in ; returning to Europe in , he resided at the Mercenarian monastery in Madrid, took part in the proceedings of the Academia poética de Madrid, founded by Sebastian Francisco de Medrano, competed in the literary tournaments then in vogue, and Wrote copiously for the stage.

His first publication, the incomplete Cigarrales de Toledo (licensed in , but apparently not published till ), is a miscellany, containing short tales, novels, verses and three plays; one of the novels, Los Tres maridos burlados, probably derived from Il Cieco da Fer